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Extending the Reach of National Parks and Protected Areas: Local Stewardship Initiatives

01 Jan 1997-pp 103-116
TL;DR: The concept of stewardship as discussed by the authors describes an array of approaches to enable responsibility of landowners and resource users to manage and protect land and natural resources, offering a means of extending conservation practices beyond the boundaries of conventional protected areas, conserving heritage at the level of landscapes, and engaging local people in improving conservation practices.
Abstract: Stewardship describes an array of approaches to enable responsibility of landowners and resource users to manage and protect land and natural resources. The concept offers a means of extending conservation practices beyond the boundaries of conventional protected areas, conserving heritage at the level of landscapes, and engaging local people in improving conservation practices. Techniques range from education, to management agreements, to full acquisition of properties. Private and public/private stewardship approaches have grown to play a significant role in heritage conservation in North America and are developing in Central Europe to address the unique challenges facing the region’s landscape.
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TL;DR: Do buffer zones serve as extensions of national parks or integrate parks and people? as mentioned in this paper provides a literature review on buffer zones and their role in the integration of people and the environment.
Abstract: Do buffer zones serve as extensions of national parks or integrate parks and people? - literature review on the subject.

85 citations

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TL;DR: For example, this article found that Western Europeans, by virtue of living in relatively small and densely populated countries, have learned how to protect lands where there is little pristine nature or state ownership.
Abstract: Western Europeans, by virtue of living in relatively small and densely populated countries, have learned how to protect lands where there is little pristine nature or state ownership. The results a...

40 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the design of buffer zones for small forest reserves (5-225 ha), where buffer zones (200 m wide) would protect the reserves and reduce negative edge effects.
Abstract: Buffer zones around reserves are often suggested, but have rarely been evaluated. We examined their design for small forest reserves (5–225 ha), where buffer zones (200 m wide) would protect the reserves and reduce negative edge effects. The potential buffer zones could be partly protected, but remain as private land. Alternatively, the state may buy land outside reserves (to be included in reserves). To consider opinions of forest owners, we interviewed 33 private forest owners in potential buffer zones of reserves. The respondents were weakly positive to conservation, but disliked a state reserve on their land, or a buffer zone where 50% of the forest would be protected without compensation; however, with compensation the majority of them were neutral or positive to such a buffer zone. In a choice between buffer zone or reserve bought by the state, the great majority of the respondents chose the buffer zone (compensation paid, land still private). We found no relationships between opinions of respondents and conservation values of their forests (densities of old and dead trees), but older owners had forests of higher value. The forest in the potential buffer zones had higher conservation value than other non-protected forests in southern Sweden. Thus, buffer zones may be valuable, and we suggest they are created in cooperation with local residents where this is possible.

34 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the efforts made by the state of Sabah to explore the potential role of Indigenous and Community-Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in strengthening biodiversity conservation.
Abstract: Sabah in Malaysian Borneo contains a range of diverse ecosystems and some of the richest concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Yet the state's existing protected area network is too fragmented and of insufficient size to safeguard biodiversity in the long term. Experts have emphasised the need for a landscape level approach to shore up conservation areas through the creation of ecological corridors of compatible mixed use. In light of the 2003 Durban Accord which signalled a shift towards greater levels of community participation in conservation, this article features the efforts made by the state to explore the potential role of Indigenous and Community-Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in strengthening biodiversity conservation. Selected case studies are used to showcase some of the ways ICCAs are already making important contributions to safeguarding ecological services and maintaining habitat connectivity in the state. Recognising the role of indigenous and local communities in sustaining Sabah's unique biocultural landscapes is a critical component of a long-term approach to sustaining irreplaceable natural heritage. Sabah's legal framework actually contains sufficient provision for greater synergy between community and state-based governance of biodiversity areas, yet aspects of Sabah's political economy must be addressed before this ideal can be realised.

17 citations

01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: A broad threshold was reached where the theory, methods, and practice of protected area planning and management re-arranged themselves into what is essentially a new framework that is still evolving.
Abstract: ometime in the early-to-mid-1980s national park and protected area planning entered a different phase or paradigm. A broad threshold was reached where the theory, methods, and practice of protected area planning and management re-arranged themselves into what is essentially a new framework that is still evolving (IUCN/UNEP/WWF 1991; McNeely 1993; Nelson and Serafin 1997; Sportza 1999). This shift in thought and practice can be described in terms of a number of key elements relating to parks and protected areas, including: • Funding; ∞ Protected area cultures and values; ∞ Native people; ∞ Sustainable development; ∞ Changes in science, scholarship, and information; ∞ Scale; ∞ The changing role of government and other actors;

10 citations

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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: The 1990s may be the last decade during which constructive and creative decisions, activities, and investments can be made to ensure that many of the world's species and ecosystems are maintained, examined for their material and ecological value, and promoted for sustainable use to support new and innovative approaches to development as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The 1990s may be the last decade during which constructive and creative decisions, activities, and investments can be made to ensure that many of the world's species and ecosystems are maintained, examined for their material and ecological value, and promoted for sustainable use to support new and innovative approaches to development. The combination of maintaining the maximum possible biological and cultural diversity, and the greatest possible scientific endeavor seems the most sensible approach toward dealing with the dynamic future facing humanity. The elements now exist that will reverse the trend toward the biotic impoverishment of the world. New partners in conservation need to be found, involving all ministries, departments, and private institutions that are directly dependent on biological resources. For example, national parks departments should be joined in habitat management by a wide range of other institutions to represent all interests. Furthermore, other line agencies need to develop the capacity to manage biodiversity of particular relevance to their respective missions. Actions taken in the next few years will determine whether we take a road toward a chaotic future characterized by overexploitation and abuse of our biological resources, or take the road toward maintaining greater biological diversity and resource sustainability.

838 citations

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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The authors provides a detailed, inside look at public-private partnerships in land acquisition, showing that rarely is a significant land acquisition accomplished without at least one private-and one public-sector participant.
Abstract: Today, rarely is a significant land acquisition accomplished without at least one private- and one public-sector participant. This book provides a detailed, inside look at those public- private partnerships.

79 citations

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01 Jan 1985

28 citations